Tuesday, January 06, 2026
Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media
Universities treated free speech as expendable in 2025 | Blaze Media:
From faculty firings to canceled speakers, record censorship efforts show campus leaders enforcing silence instead of defending open inquiry.
The fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone in 2025. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs across multiple fronts — and most succeeded.
Sooo much here, read all!-----Instapundit - BON APPÉTIT ANOINTS THE DEMOCRATS’ LATEST ‘NEXT BIG THING:’
There are few positions in life greater than being the Next Big Thing™ in the Democratic Party; you start getting ludicrously generous coverage, even from publications that are only marginally connected to politics.
- Back in 2007, Men’s Vogue suddenly put former North Carolina senator John Edwards on the cover. (An actual sentence from the profile: “The hair, up close, is peppered with tiny strands of blond. Chestnut brown and so finely trimmed, mellifluous, smooth, and feathery, it could almost be a weave, the Platonic ideal as imagined by the Hair Club for Men.”)
- Back in 2008, Men’s Health declared longtime smoker Barack Obama was one of the 25 fittest men in America.
- And who could forget Beto O’Rourke on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2019, declaring he was “was born” to be in the presidential race, with his glum-looking dog seeming to know how his presidential bid was going to go?
- Or the French fashion magazine Marie Claire putting failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on the cover in 2021?
This isn’t just garden-variety liberal media bias; these are once-apolitical publications suddenly giving laudatory soft-focus coverage of a figure, portraying him as the coolest guy ever...
How Snatching Maduro Screws Up Everyone Else's Plans - Lemme Count the Ways
I had already started wondering what the ripples - or maybe it would be even a tsunami - of aftereffects flowing from yanking this one guy out of his chair would do around the world. - Beege Welborn
- My immediate thought had turned to Cuba, as I'd already mentioned how the US oil embargo was crimping an already crappy socialist lifestyle on that God-forsaken little island.
- The importance of the Venezuelan pipeline to the Cuban communist regime cannot be underestimated. Cuba didn't buy oil from Venezuela - it was given to them.
1. The End of the "Free Oil" Lifeline
For over two decades, the single most important pillar of the Cuban economy has been the "Barrio Adentro" agreement, which saw Venezuela ship roughly 50,000 barrels of oil per day to Havana essentially for free. With the US military now securing Venezuelan ports and oil fields following yesterday's operation, these shipments have hit zero overnight. Cuba, which is already cash-strapped, simply does not have the foreign currency reserves to buy this amount of oil on the open market at global prices, meaning the island's energy supply has effectively been cut in half instantly.
2. The Loss of the "Resale" Revenue Stream...
Fascinating conversation!-----"Trump just said of tariffs, "They've made our country rich!" If some taxes make us rich, why not still higher taxes to make us richer?"
"I am talking about using the threat of tariffs to get concessions and the lowering of trade barriers in competing countries. We have not been on an even playing field for decades." - Harriett Lublin
- Kevin Gutzman: Trump just said of tariffs, "They've made our country rich!" If some taxes make us rich, why not still higher taxes to make us richer?
- Michael Spencer: Tariffs, used as a tool to repair the trade imbalances that exist today, are a net positive for our economy. If existing trade was fair and balanced, then no. But virtually all other countries erect trade barriers against us, using tariffs or other laws to excuse their barriers to free, open and fair trade....
Dan Bongino officially leaves the FBI, returns to civilian life | Blaze Media
Dan Bongino officially leaves the FBI, returns to civilian life | Blaze Media:
'It's been an incredible year.'
Dan Bongino served his final day as deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday, returning to civilian life on Sunday after less than a year of public service.
WTH??!!-----Leftist Nonprofit Cashed in at Taxpayers' Expense in the Waning Days of the Biden Administration
But now we are learning more about how little regard the Biden administration had for hard-working Americans' tax dollars, and where that money went in the year before Donald Trump returned to the White House. - Becky Noble
The Tides Center is a social justice fiscal sponsor of and is associated with the Tides Foundation.
The money came largely in the form of government grants, and because it was doled out during the Biden administration, you can guess the left-wing causes it went to...
- In 2024, tax records show that the Tides Center received a total of $37,810,397 of taxpayer money.
- It is the largest amount of government funding in a decade (up from $13,030,345 in 2014).
History for January 6
History for January 6 - On-This-Day.com
Loretta Young 1913
- 1838 - Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.
- 1942 - The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat.
- 1945 - The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000 Allied casualties.
- 1952 - "Peanuts" debuted in Sunday papers across the United States.
- 1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
Monday, January 05, 2026
Nobel-Winning Venezuelan Opposition Leader Humiliates Democrats: 'The Hour of Freedom Has Arrived'
Nobel-Winning Venezuelan Opposition Leader Humiliates Democrats: 'The Hour of Freedom Has Arrived':
Democrats in the U.S. pretend to be the defenders of democracy, but if it means opposing Trump, they’re more than willing to tacitly defend the regime of a despot like Maduro. The now-former Venezuelan leader maintained power by making a mockery of elections, like the 2024 contest he claimed to win even as exit polls showed the opposition taking 70 percent of the vote, as USA Today reported.
Machado’s trumpeting of “popular sovereignty” was a call for actual democracy — one now possible in Venezuela thanks to Trump’s action.
In 2025 alone, the state of Oregon filed 52 lawsuits against the Trump administration — costing taxpayers $3.1 MILLION.
This wasn’t about protecting Oregonians — it was about political resistance theater, paid for by YOU. - The Hodgetwins
$855,000 fighting the deployment of National Guard troops to stop chaos in Portland
$500,000 challenging tariffs
$115,000 suing over a temporary federal funding freeze
And millions more just to keep the legal war going
Imagine what $3.1 million could’ve done for:
• Police staffing
• Mental health services
• Roads and infrastructure
• Wildfire prevention
But no — endless lawsuits were the priority.
- Here’s the breakdown
$855,000 fighting the deployment of National Guard troops to stop chaos in Portland $500,000 challenging tariffs $115,000 suing over a temporary federal funding freeze And millions more just to keep the legal war going- Instead of fixing homelessness, public safety, drug addiction, or schools, Oregon’s leadership chose lawfare over governance.
Imagine what $3.1 million could’ve done for:
• Police staffing
• Mental health services
• Roads and infrastructure
• Wildfire prevention
But no — endless lawsuits were the priority.
18-year-old ISIS sympathizer who allegedly planned New Year's Eve terror attack in North Carolina is arrested | Blaze Media
18-year-old ISIS sympathizer who allegedly planned New Year's Eve terror attack in North Carolina is arrested | Blaze Media:
A North Carolina man who allegedly planned to use knives and hammers for a New Year's Eve attack at a grocery store and a fast food restaurant in support of ISIS was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, federal officials said Friday.
Marco Rubio schools Margaret Brennan after she demands answers over why the U.S. did not arrest all of Nicolas Maduro's henchmen:
"You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you. ... - Ryan Saavedra@RyanSaavedra
- It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country, the guy lived on a military base, land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any American or any American assets.
- That's not an easy mission.
And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?
- I mean, that's absurd."
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